Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is defined as the pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means."

"The best of all possible worlds."

"Half the world does not know how the other half thinks."

"Where-ever you find the greatest virtues, there you will find the greatest misery."

"The soul is what makes us human."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live."

"Philosophy without action is mere contemplation."

"Philosophy elevates the human spirit."

"What we resist, persists."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live."

"The passions that move the human heart are neither rational nor easily governed."

"There is no such thing as an ugly language—only regional dialects."

"In what instances have mankind been more happy than in the state of nature?"

"Philosophy is the pursuit of truth through dialogue."

"Nothing exists but by opposition."

"I am the eye with which the Universe beholds itself and knows itself divine."

"How art thou fallen, thou Morning Star!"

"I am the riddle and the riddle-solver."

"Philosophy without life experience is merely theoretical sophistry."

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses."

"Madness is to some an Occupation & to others an Impossibility."

"Thought chang'd the infinite to a Man: all things began in Eternity."

"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a state of eternal struggle."

"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."

"The unexamined life is not worth living, yet examination brings only pain."

"We are all strangers to ourselves."

"The mind has its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."

"Every principle contains within itself the germ of its own negation."

"Despair is the only true emotion in humanity."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell."